Fire exting­uished in five-hour period, author­ities sayTOKYO: Four people were killed and seven injured Sunday in a fire at an establishment near Tokyo offering sexual services, Japanese police said. “A man who appeared to be in his 40s and two women who appeared to be in their 20s died after being sent to a hospital,” a police spokesman told AFP. Nineteen dead after knife attack in Japan“We also found a body whose gender is undetermined inside the establishment,” he added. The seven people were slightly injured and treated in hospital. The emergency services received calls from people inside the establishment saying they could not escape because the building was filled with smoke, according to NHK.

Source: The Express Tribune December 17, 2017 11:48 UTC